CHOWN Mistake

[aED]

I have issued a chown comman to my root / to a different user and now my server is trashed is there any way to undo that? Im lucky I made a backup earlier but Is there a way to revert that easily without using my backup?

 

[nobaloney]

I'm presuming you did this recursively. Otherwise just look at another system and fix the ownership of the / directory files and directories.

But if you did it recursively ...

then...

I don't think the DirectAdmin set_permissions script is going to fix everything, but you should start by trying it:

# /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/set_permissions.sh

If you know what all ownership should be then you may be able to fix it with some complex scripting, but I'm not sure that would be time-effective.

Learn from your mistakes.

Jeff

 

[aED]

Yeah I did it recursively

chown -R user:user /

I just restored my backup and its up and running again

 

[nobaloney]

I remember the first time I did:

rm -f /*

instead of what I meant, which was:

rm -f ./*

I learned a lot that day, which was probably about 20 years ago.

Jeff

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

ehhe. i did the same when i started hosting... like 6years ago xD i was so damn pissed stopped the command but worked till i restarted it XD